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Name: Beclomethasone Dipropionate
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Xolair reduced the rate of hospital emergency visits by 44% in
patients with inadequately controlled asthma.
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Pregnancy Category C
Drug classes
- Corticosteroid
- Glucocorticoid
- Hormonal agent
Therapeutic actions
Anti-inflammatory effects; local administration into lower respiratory
tract or nasal passages maximizes beneficial effects on these tissues
while decreasing the likelihood of adverse corticosteroid effects from
systemic absorption.
Indications
Respiratory inhalant use: Control of bronchial asthma that requires
corticosteroids in conjunction with other therapy
Intranasal use: Relief of symptoms of seasonal or perennial rhinitis
that
respond poorly to other treatments
Contraindications/cautions
Respiratory inhalant therapy: Acute asthmatic attack, status
asthmaticus,
systemic fungal infections (may cause excerbations), allergy to any
ingredient, nursing a baby
Intranasal therapy: Untreated local infections (may cause
exacerbations);
nasal septal ulcers, recurrent epistaxis, nasal surgery or trauma
(interferes with healing); lactation
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Adverse effects
- Respiratory Inhalant Use:
- Endocrine: Cushing's syndrome with overdosage, suppression of
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function due to systemic
absorption
- Local: Oral, laryngeal, pharyngeal irritation, fungal infections
- Intranasal Use
- Respiratory: Epistaxis, rebound congestion, perforation of the nasal
septum, anosmia
- Local: Nasal irritation, fungal infections
- Other: Headache, nausea, urticaria
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